Grady Harwood

Strategies are often developed in response to immediate challenges and problems, rather than focusing on distant, ultimate objectives.

"When the tasks are completed, and the desired outcome has not been achieved, the real work begins."

Hacker Mindset: understand the system to deeply that you can have fun with it without breaking it.

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing

Long races remind us that early hype is just noise and real winners are those who stay in it for the long haul.

signals: contact with reality (user feedback, post metrics, bugs)

the stepping stone principle - what you collect is random but leads to other interesting finds.

what specific problem do you want to spend the next decade solving?

stand on the shoulders of others — not pretend the shoulders aren’t there.